VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT GENIUS IN THE ENGLISH BIOGRAPHIES OF ALBERT EINSTEIN
Journal Title: Записки з романо-германської філології - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the investigation of the peculiarities of verbalization of the concept GENIUS in the English biographies of Albert Einstein. The research presents main aspects of the study of the phenomenon of genius in philosophy and psychology; analyzes definitions of the lexical unit “genius” in the English dictionaries of different functional orientation; singles out conceptual features of the analyzed concept in the English speech The etymology of the word “genius” is being studied. The structure of the semantic meaning of the analyzed lexical unit consists of four sememes, two of which verbalize the given concept as “extraordinary intellectual and creative power; a person of extraordinary intellect and talent”. The following conceptual features of GENIUS have been singled out: intellectual power, creative power, superior / distinguished, new / original.
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L. V. Strochenko
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